The city of Solentar located in the east Ukraine her mercenaries paid Russian private military company Wagner, after fierce hostilities for several weeks, as announced by its head Yevgeny Prigozhin. “We continue the fighting in an urban environment, in some areas in its center,” he pointed out.
“Units of Wagner have taken control of the whole of Solentar,” Mr. Prigozhin assured in a statement from his company’s press service uploaded to social networking sites.
However, that even he spoke of fighting in the center makes it rather uncertain whether Wagner and Russian army they actually took over “all” of Solentar. AFP stresses that it is unable to independently verify the claim.
The head of the infamous mercenary company also said that “the number of prisoners of war” remains to be announced within the day.
Wagner reported last night via Telegram that she gave the surrounded Ukrainian soldiers in Solentar a deadline to surrender until midnight (local and Greek time).
The Ukrainian side has not commented on Mr. Prigozhin’s claim.
“The situation is very tense,” says Zelensky
In his speech on Tuesday night (10/1), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of a “very tense” situation.
Earlier, Kyiv reported that fighting was continuing and that “despite its losses, the enemy continues to attack,” as Deputy Defense Minister Hana Maliar put it, adding that the front was “strewn with the corpses of attackers.”
The British Ministry of Defense, as reported by the Athens News Agency, spoke yesterday morning about “regular advances” of Russian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in Solentar, acknowledging that they “probably” had “control over most of” it. flattened city. Purpose? of the Russian forces is to cordon off Bakhmut, at a distance of about ten kilometers, to cut the Ukrainian defense lines and communications.
The fighting centers on salt mines that have fallen into disuse in recent years. Powerful forces can take refuge in their galleries.
From the Kremlin’s point of view, capturing Solentar and Bakhmut would be an important step in bringing the entire Donbas under its control — a declared goal of what it calls a “special military operation” from February 24, 2022, now on its way to complete one year.
Source: News Beast
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